On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:51:13PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus:
I've always used:
find . -depth |cpio -pdlmv $dest
While we're in workarounds, I fake with:
% cat ~/bin/tarcp.sh
#!/bin/sh
cmd1=tar -cf - -C $1 .
cmd2=tar -xvpf - -C $2
echo $cmd1 | $cmd2
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:34:23PM -0400 I heard the voice of
John Baldwin, and lo! it spake thus:
On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:58, Mike Meyer wrote:
Right. I typically install / and /usr as distinct files systems
for just that reason (/ and /usr have different backup recovery
strategies
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:42:26PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus:
Bottom line: Disabling zero-delay in top doesn't buy you anything
at all.
Meanwhile, you still can't zero-delay unless you're root.
--
Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:49:02AM +0100 I heard the voice of
Soeren Straarup, and lo! it spake thus:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:45:30PM -, Derekj Tourneo wrote:
now edit the master password file
vi /mnt/etc/master.passwd
Try: vipw -d /mnt/etc
It automaticly updates the right
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:16:37AM +0200 I heard the voice of
MOUILLE Jean Pierre Ext OF/DT, and lo! it spake thus:
. 1 RAID 5 for data on nForce chip, with 3 maxtor/seagate 250 GB
disks (~450 GB data)
ataraid(4):
CAVEATS
RAID5 is not supported at this time. Code exists, but it neither
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:20:09AM +0200 I heard the voice of
Dag-Erling Smørgrav, and lo! it spake thus:
David Cramblett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's in your /boot.config and /boot/loader.conf?
I have no boot.config.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:47:04PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus:
You could theoretically install onto a local system, tar it up, then
unpack it in the unused partition on your remote machine, yes.
However in order to set the new slice bootable you'd have to
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:06PM +1000, a little birdie told me
that Stephen McKay remarked
I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete
behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't
gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:25:16PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that David Scheidt remarked
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition?
Because only meta-data writes are done synchronously. Data is still done
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:51:38AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Matthew Dillon remarked
I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end:
"There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a
lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those
things can
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:13:52AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Mike Smith remarked
I think that the administrator should be forced to override the warning
manually to indicate that they are aware of the issues they are getting
themselves in for, or at the very least that there
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 02:15:15PM +0900, a little birdie told me
that Daniel C. Sobral remarked
Larry Lile wrote:
/dev/wd0s1f on /var (asynchronous, local, noatime, synchronous, writes:
sync 93 async 216) procfs on /proc (local)
/var looks questionable...
Indeed. :-)
I'm still
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:40:43PM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Julian Elischer remarked
That one looks like a bug, either in reporting them or in doing them..
/dev/da0s1a on / (local, synchronous, writes: sync 34 async 954)
what version are you running?
FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #1: Mon
[ Caveat: I'm making this up as I go along ]
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:13:06PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that Steve Ames remarked
I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any
performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async?
Would my soul be
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:40:04PM +0900, a little birdie told me
that Daniel C. Sobral remarked
Some people tried starting two different threads in that list. We
failed in both cases. Though we don't know yet, I suspect it is
simply a case of lack of subscribers.
Hmmm...
I WAS subscribed,
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:04:50AM +0930, a little birdie told me
that Greg Lehey remarked
What mailer are you using? It didn't quote the "From " at the
beginning of the message, so David's message appeared as a separate
message. If you're looking for it, sort your messages in mailbox
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 05:01:55PM -0600, a little birdie told me
that Chris Dillon remarked
The last time I had a problem like this, it was because I put a P54C
(Pentium-MMX) into a board only designed for the P53C (a.k.a standard
ITYM P55C on a P54C board.
--
Matthew Fuller
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:24:36PM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Matt Dillon remarked
Without vmiodirenable turned on, any directory exceeding
vfs.maxmallocbufspace becomes extremely expensive to work with
O(N * diskIO). With vmiodirenable turned on huge directories
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:26:58PM -0400, a little birdie told me
that Mike Smith remarked
I'm new to FreeBSD (come from the *gasp* System V and RTU world) so I
hope this is the correct list for this. ( I'm sure I will be told if
it's not :-} )
Is there ANY penalty for having a device in
The whole "Stable Branch" thread on -security gave me an idea that's been
perculating for some time.
Problem:
We have security problems in (say) -STABLE. They get fixed. We post an
advisory about it, giving correction dates for -STABLE and -CURRENT, and
the associated cutoff in which releases
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:13:04PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus:
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
I want to modify sys/param.h to increase the value of MAXLOGNAME. I know
I've done exactly this..
edit /usr/src/sys/param.h
There's
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:52:19AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Tim Kientzle, and lo! it spake thus:
The one problem I've had is that dmalloc.h redefines some standard
functions, which can cause gcc to complain.
I usually just have a flag in my Makefile to enable dmalloc (adding a
-D to the cc
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:24:17PM -0600 I heard the voice of
Chris Dillon, and lo! it spake thus:
Your problem with smartmontools doesn't seem to be limited to the
Smart Array 642, I just tried it on a DL380 G3 with the Smart Array
5i+ and got the same error you did. It appears to be a
I've noticed some strange behavior suddenly out of CVSup. I refuse
all Attic files in ports, and that doesn't seem to be working right
all of a sudden.
My best guess is that it's something due to the recent patch to cvsupd
to handle INDEX issues, since I can't think of anything else that
would
Oh god, as everybody else is saying, I can't believe I'm getting involved
in this, but...
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:58:21AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Richard Hodges remarked
Why not parse it literally? For instance, http://www.ufp.org
would imply TCP, dest port 80, and host
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:26:22AM -0400 I heard the voice of
Mike Barcroft, and lo! it spake thus:
Just to clarify. This is still a POLA violation. If a log file is
pulled out from underneath syslogd(8), one wouldn't expect it to start
logging again, even if the file was re-created. Just
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:02:03PM -0600 I heard the voice of
Stephen Montgomery-Smith, and lo! it spake thus:
I want to create a Makefile for a C program that includes some Pentium
II specific inline assembler code. How do I tell the compiler whether
we are compiling on a i686?
Dunno, how
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:34:28PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus:
Your biggest problems are going to be the creation of the /dev,
which will need to occur in an rc.local on reboot,
Mightn't you be able to get away with this by something like:
- Downgrade / to
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:59:18AM +0100 I heard the voice of
David Malone, and lo! it spake thus:
A significant number of these are ad servers, so after complaining
to Doubleclick and getting no response, I've told my local name
server that it is authorititive for doubleclick.net and given
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:25:39AM -0800 I heard the voice of
Steve Kargl, and lo! it spake thus:
Does indent(1) have a KNF mode? If not,
does anyone have/know a set of command
line switches that best approximates KNF?
For the record, I tend to install GNU indent when I feel the itch, as it
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of
Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus:
While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this
CD format, please take in to account:
And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even
if we had
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:05:14AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus:
For 5.x we already have a 3rd floppy that is dedicated to modules.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work nearly as well as it should because there
is no way to activate it during the boot sequence; it
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:43:55AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus:
Well, regardless of how you label it, these floppies still require lots
of care and feeding in order to work. We currently have no way to
support multiple floppies in a convenient way.
My hope
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:36:10AM -0800 I heard the voice of
Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus:
If I understand you right..
A floppy boot, which loads the absolutely basic stuff (network drivers,
and some easy way to config the network) and then goes and grabs the
installer would otherwise
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:36:42PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus:
Unfortunately, there are two problems with this.
Now,
The first is that it runs after the kernel has already booted, so SCSI
devices that are handled by drivers on this floppy won't get probed.
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:50:59PM +1030 I heard the voice of
Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus:
I don't necessarily agree here - I think sysinstall is a better place because
it's much much easier to write stuff for it than the loader. In the example
you mention the only reason to use
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:48:55AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus:
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
BTW Does camcontrol rescan cause the devices to be detected? Perhaps
sysinstall could be enhanced to perform this duty as part of it's
reprobe machinations.
See my
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:23:58PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus:
Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
yes, we need something like
struct pci_device_info {
uint32_tpciid;
charbrand[64];
charmodel[64];
}
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:27:08PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav, and lo! it spake thus:
CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU is not likely to have any positive impact on
performance, and fairly likely to render the system unbootable.
I would guess just from the name that this (and some
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:38:46AM +0100 I heard the voice of
Harti Brandt, and lo! it spake thus:
So if you restore a backup that is say, half a year old, you may
well have files that belong to no known user, even if restoring to
the same system.
I suppose that mapping them to a well
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:20:56AM + I heard the voice of
Bruce M Simpson, and lo! it spake thus:
It would be helpful if it were pointed out in documentation somewhere
that the path to the compile and source directories, when doing NFS
kernel installs, has to be identical to those which
Has anybody else seen Mozilla just start munching file descriptors the
longer it runs? I've seen it with at least Phoen^WFirebird 0.6 and
the current Firebi^WFirefox. It just keeps going 'till it maxes out
the system. fstat(1) doesn't show much directly, but with -v it spits
a crapload of
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 12:40:46PM +0400 I heard the voice of
Denis Peplin, and lo! it spake thus:
2. Setup CVSup collection for subset of required files
(is it possible?), and then keep this small collection
up-to-date locally.
src-etc cvs collection already here.
One thing that I'm
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:44:15PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Mike Hunter, and lo! it spake thus:
Is there a general-purpose approach to this kind of problem in the
FBSD world? I can see myself writing a C program called `slow` that
would take argv[1] as the factor ( 1) by which argv[2]
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:28:39PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Robert Watson, and lo! it spake thus:
- Pretty recent work to get read-only reiserfs working (committed and in
the CVS repository).
Which, by the way, I just used earlier this week to pull data and
configs and such off an old and
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:45:23PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Chuck Robey, and lo! it spake thus:
I'm not sure if it is, or is not, affecting my rpcbind.
Someone else pointed out hosts_access(5). I just wanted to point out
that unless you did something to it, it's probably not. The file is
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:54:26AM -0500 I heard the voice of
Sergey Babkin, and lo! it spake thus:
I don't know if it's fixed now or not.
I just converted a Mandrake box a month or so ago, which used MD5
hashes. Worked flawlessly.
Hm, considering the we'd like people to migrate from Linux
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:03:25AM +0200 I heard the voice of
Andreas Klemm, and lo! it spake thus:
Most favourite example:
I personally still get mad if it comes to the u undo key.
I miss :N. You have to :split and then :n separately.
Standard vi lets you toggle your last change by
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 01:18:03AM -0400 I heard the voice of
Mikhail T., and lo! it spake thus:
According to smartctl, the drive runs at 56C during the copying. Its
idle temperature seems to be 54C.
That sounds a little high to me. Smartctl has been weird lately, and
it only shows temp on
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:44:18PM +0900 I heard the voice of
Pyun YongHyeon, and lo! it spake thus:
Yes, it could be. But I think the machine is fast enough to read
sequential blocks.
Try running it without SMP. There may be enough happening in the MP
locking bit that you end up falling
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:01:37PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Juhana Tahvanainen, and lo! it spake thus:
how about:
FreeBSD-Handbook-General is rather fixed once ready, only
maintenance needed is when some future release doesnt support
something anymore, that is removed and moved to
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:46:15PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus:
In fact, I'm pretty sure 4.11 can be installed with a USB keyboard.
I may be imagining that though...
Well, I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine installing 6.0 last month with
a USB keyboard.
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 02:15:52PM +1030 I heard the voice of
Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus:
The loader groks it just fine when you choose the 'boot with USB
keyboard' boot menu option ;-)
How can I choose a menu option in the loader when the keyboard doesn't
work in the loader? :p
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:57:58AM +1030 I heard the voice of
Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus:
Perhaps a BIOS option. I've never encountered a system with USB
keyboard that did not work in the loader.
The emulation or whatever it was was set in the BIOS. And it worked
in the BIOS.
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:28:23AM +1030 I heard the voice of
Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus:
Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
The emulation or whatever it was was set in the BIOS. And it
worked in the BIOS. Worked when the OS got up to sysinstall, too.
Just wouldn't work for the loader
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:48:38AM +0100 I heard the voice of
Christoph Kukulies, and lo! it spake thus:
dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/ad3 conv=noerror
Give it a bigger blocksize (say, bs=1m or so) and it'll go a **LOT**
faster.
My motherboard is an ASUS P4S8X with an on board promise controller
[ Cc trim a bit ]
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:53:11PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus:
In order to do better you either have to:
This is something that may be easier to:
3) Implement in portupgrade or portmanager or some such higher-level
tool in a language
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:23:21PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Kris Kennaway, and lo! it spake thus:
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:07:39AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
This is something that may be easier to:
3) Implement in portupgrade or portmanager or some such higher-level
tool
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:09:56AM +1100 I heard the voice of
Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus:
Given that a port's dependency tree can depend on the options it is
invoked with, it would be nicer if the dependency tree was generated
dynamically, rather than pulled out of the latest INDEX
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:33:37AM -0600 I heard the voice of
Sergey Babkin, and lo! it spake thus:
You can easily save the stream of updates as a redo log (well,
that's the idea I've been running around with).
Isn't that what the gjournal SoC thing was about?
--
Matthew Fuller
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:27:53PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Lucas Holt, and lo! it spake thus:
I worked with someone once that said they blew out the ps/2 port on
the motherboard.
I've seen this happen several times. Some boards were later revived
by judicious use of a soldering iron, but
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:03:47PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Jim Durham, and lo! it spake thus:
Is this Mission Impossible? I have no one at the site that can do this.
If I say make installworld is the whole thing going to come to a
grinding halt?
When I did a 2.2.8-STABLE to 4.3-STABLE
Come to think of it, -hackers may be the more appropriate forum for
RFC'ing on this...
- Forwarded message from Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
From: Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Daniel Sickels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25
[ Trim the CC's a bit ]
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:00:08PM -0800 I heard the voice of
Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus:
Kenneth Culver wrote:
Other reasons I haven't even thought of yet 8-).
Yeah, I was just wondering if there were issues making us keep a.out stuff
in FreeBSD
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:53:16PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Kenneth Culver, and lo! it spake thus:
I didn't realize anyone still used netscape 4.x. It's so disgustingly
unstable and slow.
That it is. The problem, of course, is that all the alternatives are
more unstable and slowER.
So, whose palm do I grease to get some PR's taken care of? ;-)
- docs/31265 - Documentation (and adjustment) of cron allow/deny file
formats
Best (IMO, but then, I wrote it ;) patch at end of audit trail.
- docs/35436 - Webpage update; don't push PAO
Patch in PR
-
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:10:00PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Matt Simerson, and lo! it spake thus:
On 5/2/02 4:27 PM, Geoffrey C. Speicher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 04:52:25 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
[in regard to multiple concurrent pw(8) processes hosing
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Jeff Jirsa, and lo! it spake thus:
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but /var/run seems like the more
logical answer. Read-only / filesystems would have a hard time creating
temp lock files in /etc. If nothing else, make it
*/
Index: lib/libutil/pid_util.c
===
--- /dev/null Sun Jun 23 08:44:01 2002
+++ lib/libutil/pid_util.c Sun Jun 23 07:34:28 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+/*-
+ * Copyright (c) 2002 Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ * All rights
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:15:01PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Martin Faxer, and lo! it spake thus:
i'm trying to write a driver for an old cd-rom drive that you connect
to the parallel port. it is a shuttletech para drive 525.
i don't have any driver docs or technical specifications but i
/libutil/pid_util.c
===
--- /dev/null Sun Jun 23 11:44:00 2002
+++ lib/libutil/pid_util.c Sun Jun 23 11:50:59 2002
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+/*-
+ * Copyright (c) 2002 Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ * All rights reserved
And here's a run at Stage 2. This adapts a subset of programs to use the
pid_*() locking supplied. The attached patch updates: pwd.h, libutil
(libutil.h and pw_util.c), chpass (chpass.c), pw (pw.c), pwd_mkdb
(Makefile, pwd_mkdb.8, pwd_mkdb.c), vipw (vipw.c). This does NOT include
passwd(1),
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:32:54AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus:
In fact, if you look at fileupdate(), you see that it already gains
an exclusive lock on the temp file, but not the original
/etc/master.passwd (if you will.) I think this is a bug, because
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:19:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus:
I think you might have your infp confused with your outfp. It's
not writing to the original live file, it's just writing the new
temp file. That part of the code is OK.
I'm talking about down
OK, this is the end for me today. I'm fairly sure, somehow, it's time to
get some sleep ;p
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:51:46PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus:
Moral of that story: This would mean for pw(8) that I can't update
the system passwords and the
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:14:58PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus:
Clearly, at the root of our disagreement is what we both perceive
the problem to be.
Oh, certainly; that's what makes it fun :)
I don't see problems in the current implementation, aside
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:07:40PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus:
The problem with your proposed patch is that it breaks the
ability to allow authentication against the database while
it is undergoing modification, which may be a prolonged period.
Would it?
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:56:31AM -0700 I heard the voice of
Paul Herman, and lo! it spake thus:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote:
So we either need to have a compelling solution or get a
committer to step in and make up our minds for us.
I think the best thing to do is
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:37:02PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Darren Pilgrim, and lo! it spake thus:
And you can have more than a single swap partition.
Up to four, so then the theoretical limit for swap is 8TB?
I hope not, since I have 6 of 'em. 4's just the default.
Do these
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:02:33AM +0100 I heard the voice of
Søren Schmidt, and lo! it spake thus:
I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it
fixes the problem or not.
Behind the curve, as usual, I just upgraded one of my systems that's
had the problem in the past to
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:32:14PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Ulf Lilleengen, and lo! it spake thus:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:08:20AM +, Bob Bishop wrote:
Why do you want prefixing?
Prefixing is needed since csup already have a configuration parser
written in lex/yacc and therefore
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 01:17:34PM +0300 I heard the voice of
Andriy Gapon, and lo! it spake thus:
P.S. I am looking for a distributed solution (mercurial, bazaar?)
that won't take away what I have with git, but would correctly work
with svn mergeinfo.
I use bazaar, but I don't use the svn
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:40:09PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Brian Somers, and lo! it spake thus:
I think this is a shame as I find the pros more compelling than the
cons, and I'm sure there are more than a few supporters out there on
hackers@ that will stay silent.
FWIW, I'm in favor of at
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:41:27PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Ulrich Spörlein, and lo! it spake thus:
I have a .hg directory sitting in / for every machine I usually take
care of. hgignore is of course set to *, so only explicitly added files
are tracked.
I do pretty much the same thing
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:38:00PM -0400, a little birdie told me
that Jim Carroll remarked
I was wondering if anyone has done any work on fsck and very large file
systems. We have a system that has 126 GB RAID Array. As you can imagine,
fsck chokes trying to alloc enough
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:25:06PM +1000, a little birdie told me
that Stephen McKay remarked
I gave up using soft updates on root because of the delayed delete
behaviour. I kept filling up root while updating kernels. It doesn't
gain you much on little used file systems anyway. So, I
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:25:16PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that David Scheidt remarked
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
Question of the day: Why do I have async writes on a sync partition?
Because only meta-data writes are done synchronously. Data is still done
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:51:38AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Matthew Dillon remarked
I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end:
There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a
lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those
things can easily
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:13:52AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Mike Smith remarked
I think that the administrator should be forced to override the warning
manually to indicate that they are aware of the issues they are getting
themselves in for, or at the very least that there
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 02:15:15PM +0900, a little birdie told me
that Daniel C. Sobral remarked
Larry Lile wrote:
/dev/wd0s1f on /var (asynchronous, local, noatime, synchronous, writes:
sync 93 async 216) procfs on /proc (local)
/var looks questionable...
Indeed. :-)
I'm still
[ Caveat: I'm making this up as I go along ]
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:13:06PM -0500, a little birdie told me
that Steve Ames remarked
I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any
performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async?
Would my soul be
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:39:54AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Matthew Dillon remarked
Though, as a side note, it should be noted that if you have DDB
enabled then lowering the secure level is pretty easy to do. If you
have access to the console, of course. We used this
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 09:28:29PM -0300 I heard the voice of
Mario Lobo, and lo! it spake thus:
Unfortunately this Mobo died and only found AM3 boards for which my
phenom 955 doesn't fit.
Not that it helps you now, but the 955 _is_ perfectly compatible with
AM3. It's only the initial 920
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:50:08PM -0600 I heard the voice of
Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus:
I've seen several other things hit -STABLE right after the freeze
ended early January which surprise me that they weren't included in
-RELEASE and we didn't have another RC.
You mean the
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:02:29PM + I heard the voice of
Tom Evans, and lo! it spake thus:
You say that snapshots of STABLE are stable and effectively a
running release branch, so why can't more releases be made?
Is the release process too complex for minor revisions, could that
be
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:57:19PM + I heard the voice of
Hugo Silva, and lo! it spake thus:
Come to think about it, those days are pretty much gone since 4.x
(incidentally, many of us who've stuck with FreeBSD for this long
think of 4.x as an epic series).
Having been a FreeBSD user for
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:41:53AM + I heard the voice of
Igor Mozolevsky, and lo! it spake thus:
The problem, however, lies in the time between a patch is submitted
and is picked up, if the latter ever occurs!.. That is where the
discouragement occurs.
Quite. For instance, we're now
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:49:02PM -0800 I heard the voice of
Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus:
5 was not out on a limb for so long because it was a clusterfun, it
was out there because it was a rework of how almost everything in
the kernel worked.
I'm not saying it was a cluster
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:20:15PM -0800 I heard the voice of
Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus:
the trouble with 5 was that it had to be all-or-nothing.
[...]
the size of the giant pile of stuff was not of our choosing.
As may be, it's beside my point. Whether due to malice,
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:20:56PM -0600 I heard the voice of
Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:46:45 -0600, John Kozubik j...@kozubik.com wrote:
This is nice because no upheaval needs to happen with 7 and 8, and
interested developers do not get kneecapped vis a vis 9
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